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Cape Town Book Sale 2017
We are sure you’ve heard the hype around the very first Cape Town Book Sale, and we are here to tell you that you have a right to be excited. From Friday, 16…
EventSibongile Khumalo was born on this day
On this day Sibongile Khumalo was born in Orlando, Soweto. She is one of the most recognized jazz musicians in South Africa. She was launched into the…
EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
On this day Mbongeni Ngema was born in Kwazulu Natal. He has distinguished himself as a renowned playwright, screenwriter and librettist. He is best known for…
EventJohn Kani was born on this day
On this day Bonisile John Kani was born in New Brighton, in the Eastern Cape. He matriculated at Newell High School and his love for theatre led him to work…
ArchiveConversation with Berney Perez, Cape Town, October 1985
ArchiveConversation with Gideon Mendel, Cape Town, November 1985
ArchiveConversation with Jimi Mathews, Cape Town, 1985
ArchiveConversation with Ben Mclennan, Cape Town, 1986
ArchiveConversation with Rashid Lombard
ArchiveConversation with Chris Ledechowski, Cape Town, October 1985
ArchiveConversation with Paul Konings, Cape Town, 1985
ArchiveConversation with David Goldblatt, Johannesburg, 1985
ArchiveConversation with Mike Davies, Woostock, Cape Town, November 1985
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
On this day, Darrell Roodt was born in Johannesburg. Growing up during the height of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to condemn the…
ArchiveConversation with Bea Berman, Cape Town, November 1985
Ghana's independence 6th March 1957
EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
Peter Lindeberg won the European Barefoot Water-Skiing title in 1977.[i] Peter won his first South African powerboat racing title, as well as set a world…
EventSnaar Viljoen, the great all-rounder is born
Johannes Hendrickus ‘Snaar’ Viljoen was born in Hanover, Northern Cape on 11 January 1904.[i] Snaar was one of South Africa’s greatest all-rounders.[ii]…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
The missionary school where so many Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki to Steve Biko — were to be educated. …
Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
Harry Beltsazer Hart was born in Harrismith, Free State on 2 September 1905.[i] He attended the University of the Free State.[ii] Hart won six medals at the…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
Essa Moosa was born in District Six, Cape Town on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights…
PlaceThe Wits School of Arts and Arts Museum
The Museum is one of Johannesburg's premier Tourist Attractions, along with the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill. It is part of the Wits University…
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
The Wits School of Arts (WSOA) is ranked as one of the top interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa according to World Universities Ranking. Forming…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
By 1968 the freedom struggle for Namibia was a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That struggle was directed by the…
Establishment of the Food Committee
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, South Africa was undergoing a downturn in economic fortunes. Unemployment and food shortages were rife,…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
The South African Native Labour Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men…
South African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
On 21 February 1917 the SS Mendi troopship sunk. As a result 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African…
EventAndre Botha, South Africa’s bodyboarding champion saves a life
Andre Botha won the Global Organisation of Bodyboarders World Tour Title in 1998, and in the next year the World Bodyboarding Championships at Banzai Pipeline…
EventLouis Raymond, an Olympic tennis singles gold medalist is born
Louis Bosman Raymond was born in Pretoria on 1 January 1895.[i] Raymond won a gold medal in the men’s singles at the Olympic Games in 1920, hosted in Antwerp,…
EventTravis Logie, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
Travis Logie was born in Durban on 11 May 1979.[i] Logie was crowned the International Surfing Association’s Open World champion in 2002, at the World Surfing…